Rita There is only St. Oswald's in Bidston. John -----Original Message----- From: birkenhead-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:birkenhead-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of ritas Sent: 02 September 2006 20:27 To: BIRKENHEAD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BIRKENHEAD] Bidston Church- Catherine Parr Jones Would sks possibly be able to tell me if there is a St Vincent's church at Bidston or only St. Oswolds. According to family history the above lady was buried at the church in Bidston in the family grave. The problem is that we think it was her first husband's family grave who were called Evans. Rita ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BIRKENHEAD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/436 - Release Date: 01/09/06 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/436 - Release Date: 01/09/06

Dag opnieuw, Peter Sorry to have taken so long to get back to you on this one (you posted to the Birkenhead list on 29th April 2005). I can find no evidence of John SELLARS' talents being much celebrated locally, but he was of course born in Manchester so Birkenhead wouldn't have regarded him as one of its own "sons" no matter how accomplished he was in his particular field or what fame he attained as author of "Chemistianity". Wirral Archives have, however, drawn my attention to this mention of him on page 100 of "Bygone Birkenhead" by J R Kaighin :- "Along here in Bridge Street lived Mr J C Sellars, an inventor. He brought out a patent cement, which became extensively used. Had he confined himself to that he might have prospered, but one invention succeeded another, and his costly experiments seemed to have drained his resources. He published a book, gorgeously bound and illustrated, called "Chemistianitry". The Liverpool Mercury criticised it in merciless fashion." John Carrington SELLARS' first wife was Irish-born Elizabeth Ann ORR, whom he married in Liverpool St Peter in the March Quarter of 1861. After her death in 1880 he's believed to have married Sarah SMITH in Tranmere St Paul in 1882. Sarah was born in Ontario, Canada c1860. His son Barratt Carrington SELLARS was a chemical manufacturer in the Droylsden area of Manchester around 1912, as you'll see if you put that name into a Google searchbox and select the GMCRO site. John appears to have died at the age of 76 in the March Quarter of 1914, the GRO reference being Birkenhead 8a/670. I'll see if I can find find an obituary in the local press when I have a little time to spare (my wife has just returned home after a hip-replacement so I'm down for household chores for the next three months or so). Incidentally, Birkenhead Reference Library have a copy of "Chemistianity", theirs being hand-numbered 471 as opposed to your 233. Hope this helps a little. Best regards Gordon Wirral UK From: Peter van der Krogt < peter@vanderkrogt.net> Subject: J. Carrington Sellars Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 23:33:04 +0200 >All >I just bought a peculiar book by a Birkenhead cement manufacturer, J. >Carrington Sellars, titled Chemistianity and published by the author in >1873. >I am trying to find more information on this peculiar book and its author. >What I have, you will find at http://elements.vanderkrogt.net/chemistianity.html (some basic biographical information at the bottom of that page) >Thanks for any help you may give me. >Peter van der Krogt, The Netherlands >Dr Peter van der Krogt >Elementymology and Elements Multidict <http://elements.vanderkrogt.net>; >e-mail: peter@vanderkrogt.net PER ANGUSTA AD AUGUSTA >Beste Gordon >Hartelijk dank voor dit aanbod! >Thanks for this offer to check the library in Birkenhead for me. I suppose >that in the case Sellars was a more or less important person in Birkenhead, >a historical society should have paid attention to him, or to his factory. >Or maybe even his Chemistianity has been once subject of a study. You never >know. >But, I would already be pleased if I had Sellars's year of decease, because >then I can check obituaries. (I checked all the on-line volumes of the >Journal of the Chemical Society up to 1920: but no mention of Sellars >decease of resigning (he was Fellow of the Chem. Soc.). >With friendly greetings >Peter van der Krogt